Miss World 1970, the 20th Anniversary of the
Miss World
Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss Int ...
pageant, was held on 20 November 1970 at the
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no govern ...
in London, UK.
58 contestants competed for the Miss World title.
Jennifer Hosten
Jennifer Hosten (born 31 October 1947) is a Grenadian radio announcer, development worker, diplomat, author, model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first black woman and the first woman ...
from Grenada won the crown of Miss World 1970.
Although Miss World 1969,
Eva Rueber-Staier of Austria, was present and took part in a dance routine before the announcement of the winner, the new Miss World was crowned by Bob Hope. The event was marked by controversy in the days beforehand, during the contest itself and afterwards.
Results
Placement
Continental Queens of Beauty
Contestants
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Pearl Gladys Jansen
* – Patricia María Charré Salazar
* –
Valli Kemp
Valli Kemp (born 19 November 1950) is an Australian former model and actress turned fashion designer, painter and art teacher. She is best known for her involvement in several high-profile beauty contests in the early 1970s, and for her role in ...
* – Rosemarie Resch
* – June Justina Brown
* – Francine Martin
* – Sonia Yara Guerra
* – Norma Joyce Hickey
* – Yolanda Shahzali Ahlip
* – Carmelina Bayona Vera
* – Louiza Anastadiades
* – Winnie Hollman
* – Fátima Shecker
* – Sofía Virginia Monteverde Nimbriotis
* – Hannele Hamara
* – Micheline Beaurain
* – Margaret Davies
* – Dagmar Eva Ruthenberg
* – Carmen Gomez
* – Julie Vardi
* –
Jennifer Hosten
Jennifer Hosten (born 31 October 1947) is a Grenadian radio announcer, development worker, diplomat, author, model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first black woman and the first woman ...
* – Jennifer Diana Evan Wong
* – Patricia Hollman
* – Ann Lay
* – Anna Hansdóttir
* – Heather Corinne Faville
* – Mary Elizabeth McKinley
* – Irith Lavi
* – Marika de Poi
* – Elizabeth Ann Lindo
* – Hisayo Nakamura
* – Lee Jung-hee
* –
Georgina Rizk
Georgina Rizk ( ar, جورجينا رزق, Jūrjīnā Rizq, born 23 July 1953) is a Lebanese model, socialite, and beauty queen. She represented Lebanon at the Miss Universe pageant and won, making her the first Lebanese and Middle Eastern/West ...
* – Mainusa Wiles
* – Rita Massard
* – Mary Ann Wong
* – Tessa Marthese Galea
* – Florence Muller
* – Libia Zulema López Montemayor
* – Glenys Elizabeth Treweek
* – Evangelina Lacayo
* – Stella Owivri †
* – Aud Fosse
* – Minerva Manalo Cagatao
* – Ana Maria Diozo Lucas
* – Alma Doris Pérez
* – Nicole Barallon
* – Jillian Elizabeth Jessup
* – Josefina Román Gutiérrez
* – Marjorie Christel Johansson
* – Sylvia Christina Weisser
* – Tuanjai Amnakamart
* – Kaltoum Khouildi
* – Afet Tugbay
* – Yvonne Anne Ormes
* – Sandra Anne Wolsfeld
* – Tomasa Nina de las Casas Mata
* – Tereza Đelmiš
Judges
A panel of nine judges evaluated the performance of the contestants in Miss World 1970.
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, Roesmin Nurjadin (the Indonesian Ambassador), Eric Gairy (the first Prime Minister of Grenada), Glen Campbell and Nina Nina may refer to:
* Nina (name), a feminine given name and surname
Acronyms
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Notes
Debuts
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Returns
*Last competed in 1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
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*Last competed in 1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
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*Last competed in 1966
Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
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*Last competed in 1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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Other Notes
* - Georgina Rizk
Georgina Rizk ( ar, جورجينا رزق, Jūrjīnā Rizq, born 23 July 1953) is a Lebanese model, socialite, and beauty queen. She represented Lebanon at the Miss Universe pageant and won, making her the first Lebanese and Middle Eastern/West ...
went on to compete in Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by a United States and Thailand based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Stre ...
in 1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
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, which was held in Miami Beach
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which sep ...
, and win the crown.
Protests and controversy
There was controversy before the contest began because the organisers had allowed two entries from South Africa, one black, one white. On the evening of the contest, a bomb exploded under a BBC outside broadcast van in an unsuccessful attempt by the Angry Brigade to prevent the contest being televised. There were no injuries. The audience then had to enter the hall past noisy demonstrators who were penned behind barricades.
During the evening there were protests by Women's Liberation
The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great ...
activists. They threw flour bombs during the event, momentarily alarming the host, Bob Hope
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer and dancer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 5 ...
. He was also heckled during the proceedings. The protests are the subject of the film ''Misbehaviour'' which was released in 2020.
Even greater controversy then followed after the result was announced. Jennifer Hosten
Jennifer Hosten (born 31 October 1947) is a Grenadian radio announcer, development worker, diplomat, author, model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1970 contest, representing Grenada. She became the first black woman and the first woman ...
, Miss Grenada, won, becoming the first Black woman to win Miss World, and the Black contestant from South Africa placed second. The BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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and newspapers received numerous protests about the result. Four of the nine judges had given first-place votes to Miss Sweden, while Miss Grenada received only two firsts, yet the Swedish entrant finished fourth. Furthermore, the Prime Minister of Grenada, Sir Eric Gairy, was on the judging panel. One of Gairy's obituaries described his corruption and use of a gang of thugs when in government. There were many accusations that the contest had been rigged, with counter-accusations that scrutiny of the results was motivated by racism and pointed that favouritism of white contestants had been typical in the contest's history. Some of the audience gathered in the street outside Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no govern ...
after the contest and chanted "Swe-den, Swe-den". Four days later the organising director, Julia Morley
Julia Evelyn Morley (née Pritchard; born 25 October 1939) is a British businesswoman, charity worker, and former model. She is the chairman and CEO of the Miss World Organization, which organizes the Miss World and Mister World. She is the wi ...
, resigned because of the intense pressure from the newspapers. Years later Miss Sweden, Maj Christel Johansson, was reported as saying that she felt she had been cheated out of the title.
Morley's husband, Eric Morley
Eric Douglas Morley (26 September 1918 – 9 November 2000) was a British TV host and the founder of the Miss World pageant and ''Come Dancing'' TV programme. His wife, Julia Morley, is now head of the pageant and his son Steve Douglas is one of ...
, was the chairman of the company (Mecca) that owned the Miss World franchise. To disprove the accusations, Eric Morley put the judging panel's ballot cards on view and described the complex "majority vote system". These cards showed that Jennifer Hosten had more place markings in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th positions over Miss Sweden and the other five finalists. Julia Morley then resumed her job. However, many observers still felt Sir Eric Gairy on the judging panel had influenced the other judges to give Ms Hosten token placings.
In Popular Culture
In 2014, BBC Radio produced an audio documentary as an episode of its '' The Reunion'' series, bringing together Jennifer Hosten, host of the competition Michael Aspel and several of the women who had disrupted and protested against the show. This documentary inspired Philippa Lowthorpe
Philippa Lowthorpe (born 27 December 1961) is an English film and television director. She was awarded the Deluxe Director Award at the WFTV Film and Television Awards for the miniseries '' Three Girls''. She recently directed episodes of the ...
to produce and direct the 2020 movie '' Misbehaviour'' which dramatized the events surrounding the contest. Shortly after its release, BBC television
BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1927. It produced television programmes from its own studios from 193 ...
produced a further documentary ''Beauty Queens and Bedlam'' which interviewed the protestors, organizers, hosts and Misses Grenada, Africa South and Sweden.
References
External links
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